The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 20.0023 Wednesday, 14 January 2009
From: Ron Severdia <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 8 Jan 2009 10:48:38 -0800
Subject: New Features at PlayShakespeare.com
Just a brief announcement to let users know about some of the latest
developments.
First episode of Shakespeare Talks, featuring Ron Rosenbaum and Davis
McCallum:
The Shakespeare Society and PlayShakespeare.com have teamed up to
produce Shakespeare Talks. The podcast programs, produced in New York
City, feature interviews, seminars, workshops and backstage passes with
noted Shakespearean experts, educators, directors and actors. The first
of the series features an interview with author of The Shakespeare Wars,
Ron Rosenbaum conducted by Davis McCallum. McCallum, who recently
directed The Belle's Stratagem at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, lives
and works in New York. Podcasts can be heard online or subscribed to in
iTunes. More info:
http://www.playshakespeare.com/news/3722-playshakespeare-com-and-the-shakespeare-society-join-forces
Shakespeare on your iPhone and iPod hits 500,000 mark:
PlayShakespeare.com has partnered up with Readdle.com to produce the
Shakespeare application for iPhone and iPod users. The free application
provides the complete works of Shakespeare, text-resizer, and a full
concordance search at your fingertips. Now over a half million users
have downloaded the application from iTunes and an Android version is in
development. More info:
http://www.playshakespeare.com/news/3668-shakespeare-on-iphone-update
PowerSearch now available on PlayShakespeare.com:
Under development for nearly six months, the new PowerSearch feature is
now active. While users could previously search the concordance or an
individual play, the options have expanded to searching genres, poems,
and other sites areas including our free document library. More info:
http://www.playshakespeare.com/search
Call for volunteers to help PlayShakespeare.com go to XML:
We're currently in the process of migrating all of our plays, sonnets &
poems to the XML format. This will allow us to provide better
flexibility for users with new functionality like custom line numbers.
We'd also be able to use the same versions for both the Web site and our
popular iPhone application. We're currently looking for people to take
on a single play and convert it to XML. It's easy and straightforward,
but just takes a little time. More info:
http://www.playshakespeare.com/news/3710-call-for-volunteers-to-help-convert-plays
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